Them good ole "theories".....

Wed Sep 15 13:31:56 UTC 2021

Having read through this shit I will never read Swisher again. How can anyone get interested in this empty crap.

> On Sep 11, 2021, at 4:45 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> OPINION
> <https://www.nytimes.com/section/opinion>
> 
> KARA SWISHER
> A Sept. 11 Conundrum
> Sept. 10, 2021
> Credit...Arsh Raziuddin/The New York Times
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> By Kara Swisher <https://www.nytimes.com/by/kara-swisher>
> 
> Opinion Writer
> 
> A lot of important words are being written about the 20th anniversary of
> the Sept. 11 attacks on America, marking that major and tragic turning
> point in history.
> 
> For those of us who lived through the harrowing time in 2001, it is an
> event that’s indelibly seared into our memories, having taken in so many
> devastating images and videos — and raw feelings.
> 
> “Never forget” became a rallying cry to counter the heinous terrorist
> attacks. And we never have. Yet, today, it’s so easy to forget what’s most
> important to us.
> 
> Social media has a lot to do with that. As hard as it may be to imagine,
> social networks weren’t around in 2001. Now they seem to govern every news
> event we experience — from elections to troop withdrawals to how we think
> about that suitcase scene in “White Lotus
> <https://ew.com/tv/white-lotus-murray-bartlett-finale-suitcase-interview/>.”
> News flies by on social media, we obsess over it, then we move on.
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> 
> Social media records, chronicles, broadcasts. It forms, and then warps, our
> reactions and, more important, our memories. For example, the links between
> services like Twitter and Facebook and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the
> Capitol seem impossible to unwind. It’s a fetid chicken-and-egg
> relationship that we will be sorting out for years.
> 
> Today, when a tweet drops in the digital forest, is there anyone who does
> not hear it?
> 
> The early social media companies, now gone, came along in the years after
> Sept. 11. Friendster was founded in 2002, MySpace in 2003. They were
> followed by Facebook in 2004 and YouTube and Reddit in 2005. Twitter
> arrived in 2006. Snapchat did not exist until 2011. Nor, in 2001, did we
> have our mobile video cameras that allow us to feed the hungry internet
> beast.
> 
> Which is to say, social media had zero influence on the events of Sept. 11.
> 
> I brought up these issues with the former Times columnist Jen Senior on my
> weekly Twitter Spaces social audio hour a few days ago. She recently
> published an article
> <https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/twenty-years-gone-911-bobby-mcilvaine/619490/>
> in The Atlantic about a family friend, Bobby McIlvaine, who died at the
> World Trade Center on Sept. 11 that explores the longtime repercussions
> that his last analog journal had on his loved ones.
> 
> McIlvaine’s private words written on paper turned out to be the final
> thoughts of a young man before he dashed out of his apartment. They are a
> stark contrast to the highly performative nature of self-expression that
> seeps into everything today.
> 
> Is there a thought in 2021 that is not made public? Is there an idea that
> remains unrevealed? Is there any utterance that can escape being chewed
> over by the masses?
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> 
> The answers to those questions are a definite no, but it’s worth
> remembering that it was not always like that.
> 
> What I did not expect in reading Senior’s narrative was that the internet
> reared its ugly head in the aftermath of McIlvaine’s death. His father, Bob
> Sr., coped with the tragedy of his son’s demise at 26 years old by diving
> headlong into the toxic pool of conspiracy theories.
> 
> Sept. 11 is perhaps the first major event that morphed into the kind of
> massive and intractable online conspiracy theory that has become so common
> today. While there were certainly others before — the moon landing, the
> Kennedy assassination, alligators in the sewer, and more — 9/11 came right
> as social tech tools became popularized. Like many others, Bob McIlvaine
> Sr. was sucked into the conspiracy morass during his journey of grief, as
> he tried to figure out what happened to his son.
> 
> Senior writes about how the ever more radicalized father became quickly
> enmeshed in all kinds of online discussion groups and forums.
> 
> “My whole thesis — everything I jump into now — is based upon his
> injuries,” McIlvaine told Senior, referring to his son. “Looking at the
> body, I came to the conclusion that he was walking in and bombs went off.”
> 
> Senior then writes: “A controlled demolition, he means. That is how he
> thinks Bobby died that day, and how the towers eventually fell: from a
> controlled demolition. It was an inside job, planned by the U.S.
> government, not to justify the war in Iraq — that was a bonus — but really,
> ultimately, to destroy the 23rd floor, because that’s where the F.B.I. was
> investigating the use of gold that the United States had unlawfully
> requisitioned from the Japanese during World War II, which it then
> leveraged to bankrupt the Soviet Union. The planes were merely for show.”
> 
> Oh. No. No. No, sir. But it sounds familiar, right?
> 
> Vaccines that include chips embedded by Bill Gates? Election fraud
> allegations that span from China to Brazil to Rudy Giuliani? All of these
> are digitized rabbit holes that got their practice runs with Sept. 11
> conspiracy theories.
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> These are not, of course, the kind of memories we should be holding on to.
> Instead, we should think of promising lives of endless possibility, like
> Bobby McIlvaine’s, cut tragically short. And that is the only thing we
> should honor as we move forward.
> Should Amazon own Bond?
> 
> Right now, according to numerous sources, the Federal Trade Commission is
> twisting itself into knots over whether it should block Amazon’s
> acquisition of MGM. The e-commerce juggernaut’s $8.45 billion planned
> purchase of the Hollywood studio that owns the James Bond franchise was
> certainly an aggressive move, and many think Amazon should not be allowed
> to suck up the property at all.
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> host of the "Sway" podcast shares her insights on the changing power
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> 
> Well, they’re dead wrong. While I am usually in the regulate-them-all group
> when it comes to tech, it’s really a mistake to try to make a case about
> too much power when it is a weak one.
> 
> The entertainment space has never been more competitive, as media and tech
> giants pour huge resources and attention into the sector. So, it’s natural
> for Amazon to want to grab some stuff, too, which is why it is paying —
> overpaying, many think — for MGM.
> 
> That, of course, is a lot different from the retail space where the growing
> power of Amazon is most definitely problematic.
> 
> For a long time, whenever anyone made this obvious observation, the company
> insisted that it controlled only a small portion of the overall retail
> marketplace. A few years back, I got regular calls from Amazon’s PR folks
> whenever I made even the slightest comment in public that the company sure
> was getting big, so much so that I thought they had a tracker on me that
> went off every time I said the word “Bezos.”
> 
> Not so much anymore. The numbers are in and there’s zero question that
> Amazon sits atop the retail universe like the commerce Godzilla that we all
> know it has become.
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> Fueled by the pandemic, the Seattle-based company this week surpassed
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/technology/amazon-walmart.html> Walmart
> in worldwide sales outside China for the 12 months that ended in June,
> according to FactSet. Amazon’s revenue topped out at $610 billion, while
> Walmart garnered sales of $566 billion for the year ending in July. And
> after hiring 500,000 new workers since the beginning of last year, it is
> likely to soon become the biggest private employer in the United States,
> too, passing Walmart’s 1.6 million workers.
> 
> While Alibaba holds its crown as the top retailer worldwide, largely
> because neither Walmart nor Amazon truly competes in China, it’s clear that
> U.S. regulators just got some nice numbers to use in their ongoing scrutiny
> of the company. Because while online shopping represents only about
> one-seventh of U.S. retail sales, it’s growing like crazy, a trend that has
> exploded during the pandemic.
> 
> Now Amazon is coming for the analog, too, according to a report by The Wall
> Street Journal that it’s moving into physical retail in a bigger way
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-retail-department-stores-11629330842>.
> That’s perhaps not surprising considering its acquisition of Whole Foods in
> 2017, which has been followed by a bunch of other analog experiments, like
> Amazon Books, Amazon 4-Star gadget shops, Amazon Go convenience stores and
> now the larger Amazon Fresh.
> 
> In fact, a new Amazon Fresh opened in my neighborhood of Logan Circle in
> Washington, D.C., recently, only a few blocks from a Whole Foods. Unlike
> the older store, it is using its arguably cool “just walk out” tech, where
> you can skip checkout by scanning a QR code on Amazon’s app.
> 
> In the same way it’s creeped forward from books to other products since its
> founding, Amazon is next going to try some department stores to sell
> clothing, housewares, electronics and other goods. It’s perfect vulture
> timing since so many department stores, already on the steep decline, have
> been further kneecapped by the pandemic. There is a lot of commercial space
> for the taking, at low rates, and a slow but steady return of customers to
> the physical stores.
> 
> Most of all, reimagining bricks and mortar, while also figuring out ways to
> glean even more tasty data from shoppers, presents great opportunities for
> Amazon. This strategy also gives it entree to many more important brands,
> especially in high-end fashion, which have been loath to sell online next
> to, say, Amazon batteries.
> 
> A long time ago, I did an interview with the Walmart chief executive, Doug
> McMillon, who told me that he could envision big-box retailers like his — a
> Walmart supercenter clocks in at about 180,000 square feet — as 10,000
> square-foot spaces where people could look at stuff and then order goods to
> be delivered to their homes instantly.
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> It was a great vision, for sure. It’s just that it’s probably going to be
> Amazon that pulls it off.
> 
> But the movie business — especially the streaming space that includes NBC’s
> Peacock, Disney+, HBO Max, Netflix, Apple TV+ and Paramount+ and more — is
> another beast altogether. Thus, efforts by progressives to shove Amazon in
> a one-monopolist-fits-all suit is going to hurt the more salient efforts to
> rein it in.
> 
> Amazon certainly does not dominate the video content space, and regulating
> as if it might someday would be a big unforced error by the newly installed
> chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Kahn, who made her bones making
> a case against Amazon as a retail and marketplace monopolist as a law
> student.
> 
> And if she does move against Amazon in the entertainment arena, courts will
> — quite correctly — smack the F.T.C. back, as they did in its initial
> filings about Facebook.
> 
> Let me be explicit: If you’re going to try to regulate giant tech companies
> — an admirable goal — you best not shoot and miss. The MGM deal is not
> anticompetitive. It’s just not.
> Get off my Ray-Ban lawn, Facebook
> 
> Facebook announced Thursday that it was doing its version of Snapchat
> Spectacles
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/technology/facebook-wayfarer-stories-smart-glasses.html>
> — proving my theory once again that the Snap chief executive, Evan
> Spiegel, is the chief product officer of Facebook.
> 
> Facebook, the shoplifting social media company, has partnered with the
> sunglass legend Ray-Ban on a “new line of eyewear, called Ray-Ban Stories.
> They can take photos, record video, answer phone calls and play music and
> podcasts.”
> 
> Snapchat and Google have long trudged down this road with mixed results. I
> am not against the effort, but I am not thrilled that Facebook is using a
> brand that I have made my own for 30 years now.
> 
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> While the new Facebook-whatever is using Ray-Ban’s Wayfarer model, and not
> my beloved aviators, the fact that I never got offered a test pair feels
> like I’m being trolled. In any case, let me say, having been there at the
> dawn of Google Glass, this won’t work this time, either.
> 
> The why is complex — I will relate my theories on this in a future
> newsletter — but it’s clear that the idea of Facebook selling what is
> essentially a surveillance device might be an issue of concern in 2021.
> And … scene
> 
> I noted in my article on Tuesday that Apple was likely to have a “modified
> win”
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/opinion/apple-epic-newsletters.html> in
> its case against Epic Games. The verdict is in. While Apple was not
> declared a monopolist, and won on all but one count, including on the point
> that Epic, the maker of Fortnite, was in breach of contract, what Apple
> lost on was also significant.
> 
> According to the ruling by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of U.S. District
> Court for the Northern District of California, the company can no longer
> force developers to use only in-app purchasing. Apple has already been
> moving to this inevitability with the settlement of a class-action lawsuit
> recently, so it seems unlikely that the company will appeal further. This
> seems like a perfect ruling, cutting the app baby in a way that seems fair
> to all.
> Lastly …
> 
> For those who missed this little announcement in my Tuesday newsletter: I’m
> hosting a virtual event on Tues., Sept. 14, for Times subscribers. I’m
> planning to chat with the Times reporter Maggie Haberman and Representative
> Cori Bush of Missouri. You can RSVP here
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/opinion/kara-swisher-maggie-haberman-event.html>
> .
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> Kara Swisher is the host of “Sway <https://www.nytimes.com/column/sway>,”
> an Opinion podcast, and a contributing writer. She has reported on
> technology and technology companies since the early days of the internet. @
> karaswisher <https://twitter.com/karaswisher>
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> Dictators Find God
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